Map
Map
Map
Verso of Map
  • Kingdom of China
  • 中華帝國
  • Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617
  • Metellus
  • 1596?
  • An extremely uncommon small map of China, it was published in a number of German atlases issued by Metellus and others in Cologne. The model of the map is the earlier Ortelius-Barbuda map of China of 1584 with the same sidelong orientation, but a simpler design

  • Scale indeterminable
  • Title from "China in European maps", p.158:中華帝國=The Kingdom of China
  • Relief shown pictorially
  • Modelled on Ortelius-Giorgio's map of China of 1584
  • G7820 1596 .B67
  • China
  • 中國
  • by Giovanni Botero
  • Latin
  • 1 map ; 17 x 22 cm
  • 10.14711/spcol/b534931
  • https://digitalcollections.hkust.edu.hk/Detail/objects/b534931